The poem appeared as graffiti underneath an overpass in
Switzerland which I noticed while I was traveling through last summer.
I immediately wrote down the equation and carried it with
me back to the states. I knew I wanted to do something with it I
was obsessed by its simplicity and romanced by its cryptic message, which
I believe all graffiti to hold (as in the words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls  Simon and Garfunkel). Six
months later, I gave it a title that encompassed my feelings about the
work. The title is lifted from a Wallace Stevens poem of the same name.